Because I have a Macintosh, I tend to use Safari as a web browser. It’s a handy little program, and locks up a lot less than Microsoft Internet Explorer. (I don’t know what it is with those Microsoft people and their lock-ups. Supposedly they’re interested in selling stuff to Apple’s consumers, and they own a nice batch of Apple stock, but sometimes I suspect they only want Apple around so they can have a convenient place to steal ideas from.)
The catch with using Safari all the time is that sometimes I forget that the rest of the planet uses Internet Explorer. (Except for the small batch of die-hards that use other browsers that don’t lock up so often.) So when I program a page to do neat things, I check to see if it works in Safari. If it does, I’m fine with it. Not that I’m deliberately trying to screw over Windows users or Internet Explorer users; I just wasn’t thinking about them.
So, after getting frustrated with my own pages on someone else’s computer, I apologize. I’ll do what I can to clean up the code.
Bear in mind that Microsoft has its own bastardized versions of the code I use. Everyone else sticks to the standards—Netscape’s version of JavaScript and the international conventions of
And Microsoft does make great software; but like I said before, I wish it wouldn’t lock up so often. I’ve been too spoiled by Macintosh OS X.